Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: August 6, 2025, 7:39 pm

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
STS-135: The last Space Shuttle mission.
#8
RE: STS-135: The last Space Shuttle mission.
(July 8, 2011 at 1:32 pm)Rhythm Wrote: What makes you think that the space program wasn't instrumental in weapons development? A booster that can lift a shuttle can lift a significant nuclear payload. Lets not even talk about the shuttles ability to be refit as a "frigate in space"..lol.

I'm not saying it isn't responsible for mind boggling technology, which is my gripe with it ending, they just don't produce the weapons. The military has its own masterminds. NASA doesn't have a monopoly on brains.
Reply



Messages In This Thread
STS-135: The last Space Shuttle mission. - by leo-rcc - July 8, 2011 at 9:36 am
RE: STS-135: The last Space Shuttle mission. - by Shell B - July 8, 2011 at 1:34 pm
RE: STS-135: The last Space Shuttle mission. - by mariuss - July 11, 2011 at 12:22 pm
RE: STS-135: The last Space Shuttle mission. - by mariuss - July 11, 2011 at 12:58 pm

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  James Webb Space Telescope pics pocaracas 18 4965 December 8, 2022 at 3:00 am
Last Post: Fake Messiah
  Last Lunar Eclipse (until 2025) going on right now! Jehanne 15 3127 November 12, 2022 at 7:42 am
Last Post: Jehanne
  A Simple Demonstration of Space/Time Relativity Rhondazvous 14 4223 August 26, 2019 at 10:38 pm
Last Post: Vince
  Space Shuttle video site zebo-the-fat 0 697 October 6, 2018 at 1:07 pm
Last Post: zebo-the-fat
  No perfect circles in space... Jehanne 42 10814 July 23, 2018 at 7:30 pm
Last Post: Jehanne
  Trump space force: US to set up sixth military branch zebo-the-fat 47 10599 June 22, 2018 at 10:09 pm
Last Post: AFTT47
  Cassini's Last Days Clueless Morgan 26 9076 September 14, 2017 at 9:06 pm
Last Post: vorlon13
  How Do Scientists Know It's Space Expanding Not Galaxies Moving? Rhondazvous 43 13474 August 18, 2017 at 10:53 am
Last Post: Alex K
  Space-Time: The Bopdie Twins: If Space is Expanding Isn't Time Expandin Too? Rhondazvous 14 2545 August 2, 2017 at 8:06 am
Last Post: Rhondazvous
  POLL: Is Space Continuous or Discrete? Severan 4 2317 July 14, 2017 at 8:22 am
Last Post: Iroscato



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)